couple of changes: chat and profile

[Mike]

First of all the chat room is now only availbale to those people who have actived their forum account. When you register, an email is sent to your email address containing an activation url and code. As long as you haven't activated your account, then you'll not be able to access the chat room.
If you run into problems because of that, then say so and we can re-send that email to you. Make sure your email address is correct.

Second minor change is that you can now view the local time for a specific member. When you look at their profile, in the right column, all the way down, you should see what his or her time is. Nothing spectaculair, but nice :)

[archely]

Well....i just tried out the chat, and i was able to create a ghost just like before so....apparently as long as you have an active forum account you can make as many chat users as you want?

[Mike]

I could move the whole stuff over to registered chat accounts instead of, umm, auto-login. But the problem is that sometimes people get disconnected from the chatroom, while they remain logged in. With the "ghost" user people can at least get back in, so I think this is better.

Just use your own name, or something close in case of emergency. But do not have the nerve to pretend to be someone else, please.

[Abraxas77]

Mike, your are so cool!! :)

many kudos for mike.